The Gospel of Mark is presented in a way that demonstrates the fulfillment of Old Testament promises.
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The clear contrast between God’s covenant-keeping and Israel’s covenant breaking, particularly among Israel’s kings, is perhaps the most important theme in the book of Kings.
Haggai is all about the ongoing work of building up the people of God, a work that is primarily God's.
As an oracle of judgment, Obadiah presents unique challenges for gospel application.
For Matthew, the gospel is the good news that God has inaugurated the final stage of his plan to reclaim the world from the destruction of sin and establish his just and merciful reign over it.
Even Joshua’s name (“Yahweh Saves!”) points away from himself to the real hero of the story. Joshua is a story of grace.
Luke’s presentation helps us see clearly that the gospel of Jesus is about the comprehensive blessedness of God available to us through Jesus Christ.
While Hebrews clearly makes its own unique contribution, it joins other New Testament books in exulting in the same amazing grace in Jesus that forms the Bible’s main message.
Of all the books in the Bible, Colossians may rightly be considered the most Christ-centered.
The book of Job helps free us from believing in a “score-keeping” God.
In four ways, the Old Testament book of Amos is essential for a robust understanding of the gospel.
Everything John tells us about Jesus leads us to his cross and his empty tomb—to his substitutionary death and glorious resurrection.
As the last books in the Hebrew Old Testament, the books of 1–2 Chronicles prepare God’s people for the arrival of Jesus.
God deals with sinners in one of two ways: deserved justice, or undeserved grace.
In typical prophetic form, Joel gives his readers both the bad news of God’s judgment and the good news of his promised deliverance.
The “gospel according to Daniel” comes in glowing revelations of the power of God to redeem his people, overcome their enemies, and plan their future.
If there ever was a clarion call to rejoice because of the gospel, it is Paul’s epistle to the Philippians.
Writing to people who were discouraged by living, after the exile, Zechariah encouraged them to look forward to the day when the Lord would act once again.
James is a beloved epistle, eminently practical and full of vivid exhortations to godly living.
Paul’s second letter to Timothy is a call to endurance amid opposition and suffering for the sake of the gospel.
In 1 Thessalonians, Paul cannot stop rejoicing that the gospel came to the Thessalonians in word, in power, and with full conviction by the Holy Spirit.
Second Corinthians is filled with the astounding paradoxes of the gospel.
Peter writes to encourage a “mixed bag” of believers with dear but easily forgotten truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
People are rebellious, even God’s people, but God himself insists on doing his people eternal good anyway.
The book of Titus is a letter from Paul to a young pastor, urging him to lead his people deeper into the gospel.
The word “gospel” never appears in the letters of John. Yet it is hard to imagine a book more intimately connected to the gospel of saving grace in Christ Jesus than John’s first letter.
The central gospel themes in Paul’s shortest letter are surprisingly substantial.
Where is the gospel in Jude’s epistle? In such a compact space, we actually receive a potent portrait of the gospel.
The faithfulness needed to combat wickedness requires an experience of God’s powerful grace in the gospel.
Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians is a letter of comfort to those eagerly awaiting the promised return of Jesus Christ.